Having realised (see previous post) that I had to travel overnight next Tuesday - but could instead catch Episode 2 repeated on the Friday...

I now discover that my viewing of Episode THREE, the FOLLOWING Tuesday, is also in jeopardy. For the SAME FLIPPING REASON . Only, this time I also have to be away on the Friday night, so would also miss the repeat. I can only conclude that the forces are conspiring to make me miss as much as possible of this series.

Right. Plan A is to get someone to record it for me. But I'm not sure I trust that system, as it has failed me on numerous occasions. Plan B: well, instead of doing my eight-hour journey overnight - and getting to sleep through it - I am going to stay at home, watch Episode 3, then do my journey on Wednesday daytime instead. Awake. And I won't even be able to read as I'll have two children to entertain.

That is testament to my love and dedication, guys. Hope you're listening .

Hope everyone enjoyed the first episode! If you enjoyed the first episode, episode 2 is going to be absolutely amazing, trust me And the show got high ratings- 412,000 which is very strong by BBC Four/digital standards and much higher than when season 1 premiered in September 2007

From the Guardian:

Flight of the Conchords gives BBC Four lift off

The second series of US musical comedy Flight of the Conchords launched with more than 400,000 viewers on BBC4 last night, Tuesday 12 May.

HBO's comedy, which stars New Zealand comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, pulled in 412,000 viewers and a multichannel share of 2.9% between 10.30pm and 10.55pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.

That was well up on the first series, which averaged a 0.7% multichannel share in a 9.30pm slot on Tuesdays on BBC4 in late 2007. The channel said that last night's figure was also almost three times its average multichannel share of 1%.

Flight of the Conchords launched with 161,000 viewers on BBC4 in September 2007.

Before the first episode of the second series, documentary Flight of the Conchords: On Air brought 264,000 viewers and a 1.5% multichannel share to BBC4 between 10.05pm and 10.30pm.

It was great to see the On Air documentary on the Real Telly. Am sure this has been mentioned loads before, but I hadn't noticed the Bret stripe combo on their trailer before. Must become more observant...

As for Episode 1 - guess what, I was ambushed by RL once more, and missed all but the first 5-10 minutes . Fortunately, I'd seen it before. Definitely a promising beginning .

Now that we're actually up and running, maybe we should shift our quarters to the episode threads set up when it ran in the US, for any comments on individual episodes?

trefusis wrote:Right. Plan A is to get someone to record it for me. But I'm not sure I trust that system, as it has failed me on numerous occasions. Plan B: well, instead of doing my eight-hour journey overnight - and getting to sleep through it - I am going to stay at home, watch Episode 3, then do my journey on Wednesday daytime instead. Awake. And I won't even be able to read as I'll have two children to entertain.

That is testament to my love and dedication, guys. Hope you're listening .

Aww, Sherry - thank you. That would be great, if it isn't too much trouble. I know you have an extremely pressing RL of your own.

Any time I try to set something to record when I'm not actually watching it, it fails due to "loss of signal". Am not sure whether this is due to the convoluted way my dh has set up our TV/PC, or the fact that our signal is dodgy away out here in the (relative) wilds. But no matter what dh does to fix it, and despite his unflagging confidence that "this time it's bound to work", it never does . Have never had much luck with friends/family remembering to record stuff for me, either.

Am OK for Ep. 2 because of the Friday repeat, but it would be fantastic to have Ep. 3